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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

"I like that," said Bernard bitterly. "When it's

you who were the cause of it all. Refusing to come

to my party and so turning them all against me!" He

knew that what he was saying was absurd in its

injustice; he admitted inwardly, and at last even

aloud, the truth of all that the Savage now said

about the worthlessness of friends who could be

turned upon so slight a provocation into persecuting

enemies. But in spite of this knowledge and these

admissions, in spite of the fact that his friend's

support and sympathy were now his only comfort,

Bernard continued perversely to nourish, along with

his quite genuine affection, a secret grievance

against the Savage, to mediate a campaign of small

revenges to be wreaked upon him. Nourishing a

grievance against the Arch-Community-Songster

was useless; there was no possibility of being

revenged on the Chief Bottler or the Assistant

Predestinator. As a victim, the Savage possessed,

for Bernard, this enormous superiority over the

others: that he was accessible. One of the principal

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